Any condition which has this feature may find its remedy in Dulc.
Effects of lying on damp ground (e.g., paralysis); conditions which are < in cold, damp weather; or, from changes from hot to cold weather, especially if sudden.
Phlegmatic, torpid, scrofulous patients, who are restless and irritable and who take cold on damp changes, are especially suited for Dulc.
Sensitiveness to cold and damp runs through the Solanaceæ, and is marked in Bell. and Caps., but it is supreme in Dulc. This feature among others renders them all good antidotes to Mercurius.
Baryta carb, is the complement of Dulc. in “< from cold weather, especially in scrofulous children.” In poisoning cases Dulc. produces: Hard, griping pains in bowels; unconsciousness; tetanic spasm; trismus; loud, rattling breathing; death.
Paralyses are numerous: paralysis of tongue; of lungs; of heart (pneumogastric paralysis). (I once gave Dulc. 30, with complete relief to the pain, in a case of sarcoma of the bones at the base of the skull, in which there were stabbing pains in the front of the head, and partial paralysis of the tongue.
It was the latter symptom which determined the choice of the remedy.) Paralysis of the bladder. Rheumatic paralyses. Paralysed part feels icy cold. One-sided spasms.
Convulsions beginning in face. Trembling, especially of right arm. It cured: “Paralysis of vocal cords (aphonia) from sleeping over a damp cellar.” McLaren cured with a single dose the following case, which was the result of a wetting: Facial paralysis (l.) following neuralgia, the eye having remained unclosed for eight months.
Red rash with itching < in damp weather. After a slight aggravation improvement began in two weeks and continued steadily (Med. Adv., xviii. 214).
Dulc. is a scrofulous remedy and has many scrofulous-looking eruptions: moist or dry, red, tettery eruptions, especially on face; furfuraceous; herpetic; urticaria; skin callous; warts, fleshy or large, smooth. Painless ulcers
Head Indication of Dalcamara Homeopathic medicine
Vertigo when rising from bed, with darkness before the eyes.
─Giddiness early in the morning, > on getting up.
Giddiness so as to occasion failing, with trembling of the whole body, and general weakness.
─Giddiness, with heat ascending to the face.
─Dull pressure, as if a board were resting heavily on the forehead.
─Pressive stunning pains in different parts of the head.
─Piercing and burning pain in the forehead, with digging from the inside outwards, with the sensation as if the brain were enlarged; < in evening till midnight and when becoming cold; > when lying down.
─Bursting pains extending from forehead to bridge of nose.
─The headache is < by the slightest movement, and even by speaking.
─Boring headache, from within to without, in the temples and forehead; < before midnight and when lying quiet; > when talking.
─Sensation of heaviness in the head.─Congestion in the head, with buzzing in the ears
